Amy Poehler Quotes

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that we're different. Having said that, it's true that motherhood is a particularly vulnerable area. It's an open wound, really. A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.